The Bawaka Experience
Come experience
Yolŋu culture
Gululu bukmak Bawakalili
Welcome to Bawaka
The Burarrwanga Bawaka family, under new management, now offers seven days a week cabin accommodation, safari tents and BYO camping, and exciting one-day visits or a visit the magical iconic Ngalarrkpuy Lonely Beach. (Ngal / arrk / puy) You can also book a special weekend one-day or two-day cultural experience or other private function.
Children under 4 free; between 4 – 16 years half price.
All visitors will experience breathtaking landscapes, pristine beaches, and crystal-clear waters. While there, you can relax, have a picnic, do a Bayni beach walk through a small tropical rainforest to another beach, fish off the rocks or hang out on the large deck with access to bathroom facilities, an open-style kitchen/dining/lounge area with a BBQ, fridges, sink, and an open beach fireplace.
You can now book; Cabin Accommodation, Safari Tents or BYO camping for day or as long as you require. Weekend one-day or two-day Special Bawaka cultural experience are also available. Or just book a One-Day-Visit to Bawaka for a wonderful day out.
Ngalarrkpuy Lonely Beach tour can be added as an activity to a One-Day Visit, Camping, or Cabin booking in the third step of the booking process. This tour now also includes a visit to Bungugunglu, a very large, thousands-of-year-old Yolngu fish trap site.
Cultural Experience Bookings. Bawaka now offers different types of cultural experiences, from two to eight hours. Many do the two-hour experience and just want more, so an hourly on-the-day extension is also now available. Bawaka also offers a one-day or two-day special cultural experience for schools, private, or corporate groups. See below for an outline of the cultural experiences.
Cultural Experiences are not included with a One-Day Visit to Bawaka or a Lonely Beach Tour; they require a prearranged or on-the-day booking if Yolngu are available.
The combinations of these cultural experiences bookings are too complex for our online booking service. So please call 0457 458 543 to make a booking for these. If the number does not answer, just leave a message, and we will get back to you.
Limited access. Bawaka Homeland is limited to 4-wheel drive vehicles. With a 17km of bush track drive where, the wet season can offer washouts and some creek crossings will require a fitted snorkel. In the dry season, the 5km beach drive can be in soft sand. Experienced drivers are required.
Bawaka Cultural Experience
Bawaka now offers 2- to 8-hour cultural experiences. Many do the two-hour experiance and just want more. We are now providing that with a hourly extensions now available.
Cultural Experiences are not included with a One-Day Visit to Bawaka or a lonely Beach Tour.
Bawaka also offers a two-day special Cultural Experence for schools, private, or corporate groups.
The combinations of these cultural experiences bookings are too complex for our online booking service. So please call 0457 458 543 to make a booking for these. If the number does not answer, just leave a message, and we will get back to you.
What does a Cultural Experience offer?
Cultural Experiences will include a traditional Yolngu ‘welcome to country’ and a combination of many other things, depending on the interests of the group and the particular time of the year.
They may include:
Understanding different elements of the kinship system
Their bush calendar that tells them which food to harvest at different time of the year.
Different bush medicines and how they are used, including body washers
Different Yolngu food and ways of cooking them
Weaving, including traditional dying
Making and repairing fish spears
Some of the traditional history stories, including stories about the Macassin traders, some of these stories acted out in song and dance
Other stories around the campfire
There are too many things to cover in a short time
In fact, more information than you could learn in a lifetime.
Ring 0457 458 543
Cultural Experiences require special bookings and are not part of the One-Day Visit, a Lonly Beach Tour or a standard Accommodation stays. Except what happend in the normal daily living of the Bawaka family.
If you require a Cultural Experience, please ring 0457458543. If the number does not answer, just leave a message, and we will get back to you.
Bawaka wants to hear from large corporate groups, colleges, or private functions that want a special cultural experience. Please get in touch with us and organise an experience that will change your life.
Contact us by phone on 0457458543 or email inquire to info@bawakaexperience.com.au
If this number does not answer, leave a message, and we will get back to you.
MEET YOUR
new family
We will welcome you into our home with open arms.
Our community members will be your new family and we all have our own stories to share with you.
The Bawaka homeland community also comes together to help our tour leaders, creating a friendly and inclusive environment for you to enjoy your time with us.
